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Fo?&r cats in peace behind ssppcrters dtmrg a recent casspdga party-picsx.
Senator Fowler:
A 'nice guy
with no spare time'
Four yeas ago, at as 22, Steve Fowler was elected
state senator, the youngest ever in Nebraska. lie began
campaigning for the seat in the Legislature barely after
turning in his gavel as president of ASUN.
' The year he was president was 1971-72. Not quite the
activist 60s, but close. . .
That year, -ASUN sponsored a controversial Time Out
Conference on Human Sexuality at UNL and made birth
control handbooks available to students. It also actively
supported a threatened mass violation of coed visitation
rules in the residence halls.
Student services were expanded including a record
store with more records than the year before (and the
lowest prices in town, Fowler said), an art and gif t shop
and two book exchanges. He gave donations to child and
infant day care centers.
In addition, ASUN supported Free University,
coordinated group independent study and helped set up
interim study sessions between semesters. Special inserts
were sent to students with their registration forms
explaining new pass-fail policies and independent study
programs.'
Fowler said he doesn't fed students were apathetic
when attending UNL, and neither are they now.
There's always been a problem getting students to
vote (in ASUN elections)," he said. Eat when something
was going on which students were concerned about, they
showed their interest. For example, 10,000 birth control
handbooks were distributed, and, "Large numbers of
students were mobilized for the visitation issue," he said.
UNL administrators were "always very sympathetic''
to students needs, Fowler added. But inevitably they
would return from the Board of Regents and explain to
the students that the Board would not grant the students'
request, he said.
"I don't know what they told the Board of Regents,"
Fowler said with a smile.
As a state senator, who is running for re-election this
fall, Fowler hasn't forgotten his former constituency.
Last year he introduced a bill which would have
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Stagecoach Lake in the Conestoga State Recreation area
by Seward is close to Lincoln, and at times offers 30-35
feet of visibility.
The sand quarry at the Minden 1-80 exit, while only 18
ft. deep, has good visibility and interesting wildlife, in
cluding bluegCls, walleye, bass, turtles and crayfish. The
description of a spring zooplankion bloom opening this
article came from an experience of the author at the
Minden quarry. .
The Hard Lake State Recreation Area near Central
City, Louisville Recreation Area, and sand quarries around
Fremont provide accessible but low-visibility (5-15 feet)
diving spots.
Lake McConaughy , near Ogallala, is the state's largest
and deepest lake with visibility at times reaching 100 feet.
Separffching and deep diving are the major activities, al
though there is a sunken town in the lake that was vacated
and then drowned when the reservior was flooded.
The Oahe Reservior near Pierre, South Dakota, con- -tains
a sunken Indian burial ground and U.S. Cavalry fort.
Divers have found arrowheads, pottery, buttons, coins,
bottles, and other artifacts while exploring these. There
have also been finds of buffalo skeletons near the
dam.
Table Rock Lake near Branson, has year-around diving
with up to 1 00 feet of visibility. One of the feature
attractions here is a sunken forest of black oak.
Isle Royale National Park in Minnesota is about eight
miles south of the Canadian border. Here are several still
intact shipwrecks that are protected from salvage and arti
fact collecting. One can swim into and through the
steamer "America" to see china stSl on table, crew's
quarters, and the rest the same as it was the day the ship
went down.
Lake Okaboji, la., has been the site of many historical
finds. There is a covered wagon and a Model A Ford ice
truck in the lake, apparently fallsn through the ice during
the early years of settling the Midwest.
The diver with money and inclination can always pack
up and go to some tropical paradise with crystal-clear blue
waters, but there are many fascinating experiences for
those who try local waters.
TourviSe said people dive for a number of reasons. -"It's
a good recreational sport, requiring fitness, confi
dence, and experience," he said. "There is the sense of
open freedom from the diver moving almost effortlessly
through a supporting medium in three dimensions. And it
gives people a majestic value of nature, because it is such
an alien environment. But most of all, I'd say divers were
stimulated by an interest in the unknown. The sport is
only twenty years old, so anyone who goes underwater is
an explorer a pioneer."
All in all, the cost of a divicg course doesnt seem to be
a bad price for a ticket to a new world.
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This is the first issue of what we hope will become a
distinctive publication at UNL.
For years, the Daily Ncbra&an has covered news of
the caz?pus faithfully four days a week. Last year, the
UNL Ess&ii department started publishing a semi
annual Iitsrrv ai2zine, Aikrra o give r outlet to
students with tshnt for writing fiction and poetry.
TLiri Disra wO be unLke either.
UNL has never had a gtneral magazine with an
identity of its own and this, first, is vhat we hops to
make 3-D. Ve hope it will be the kind of publication
students will save longer than a day or two, and read at
their liesure. Vell try to do creative things with layout
and art to enhance that
Third Dsxzbn's scope will be entirely
ofTcsspas. That rarit be hard to imagine how after
rcadirg the DiUy Nehra&an, but we believe students
are mud) more than students.
They are aba young voters, consumers,Lincohites (at
IzzZL "tporarily) sometimes half of a ciarrbd couple
and u:uI2y about-to-be job seekers. In tr.nl, they're
ycurg adults who ars interested in a of thirds.
ia 3-D, we will try to cover ixues mere in depth
tin c-i- allow. VhUa we won't print
fiction, we wl use a more creative, freer style of writ
ing than "hard news."
- At least twice this semester we will devote the entire
issue of 3-D to one subject, whkh we feel needs to be
examined in depth. UsuaSy, we w21 strive for a variety
of ssrs, sash as personality profHas, consunr
stories, "things-to-do" stories and cswsfastcres. Nat
ional israss arsnt beyond cur reabL
- To make TL!rJ Dtra more your megaziae, we
want to print frse4ance artkles from students or
faculty members. If you have an interesting experience'
under your teit, are an authority on a subject cr have
always wanted to try writing, don't hesitate to try us.
Yea don't have to be a journalise nor.
TLri Cltraa will pay fcr aH articles it uses.
We also welcome your letters, if you have a com
ment about something we've run.
There will be seven issues cf Tiiri Dlsssha this
semester, counting today V Publication date is every
other Thursday, except Thanksgiving.
So sit back, lock at us through new eyes and an
open mind, and enjoy reading in the third dimension.
3rd DIMENSION
TSia Staff
Ncncy J. Stc!
Terry KccCo
Tcrri VKlzzn
Thd Kien:a is published biweekly Thursdays as
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